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Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival Word Tour

  • Rio Theatre for the Performing 1205 Soquel Ave Santa Cruz, CA, 95062 United States (map)

Adventure Night Supporting SC Mountains Trail Stewardship

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide.

From the over 400 entries submitted to the Festival competition each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theatres around the world.

Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2025/2026 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.

Join us when we screen this all new Adventure line up of films (see below) featuring the BEST DAY EVER, the Audience Choice Award Winner and Best Film: Mountain Sports and five other engaging films.

This year’s event will once again support the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship.


List of films screening: Please note film advisories listed below, if you are concerned, before purchasing tickets.

Cold Calls – Japan
USA, 2025, 6 min

Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer!

The Hive Architect
UK, 2025, 12 min

For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non-intervention habitats for wild honey bees.

Best Day Ever
USA, 2025, 47 min
Advisory: Coarse language

*2025 Best Film: Mountain Sports

2025 Audience Choice Award

Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities with humour and attitude. Along the way, they embrace the tremendous support, friendship, and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community.

Deluge
Canada, 2025, 2 min

Georgia Astle, Casey Brown, Carson Storch, and

Tom van Steenbergen battle the elements.

Dissidence
France, 2025, 34 min

Two unexpected names are emerging on the stage of the climbing World Championships: Ravianto and Raviandi Ramadhan, twin brothers from Indonesia. With nothing but their own resources, Dissidence retraces their extraordinary journey, from the training walls of Jakarta to a climbing route in Savoie, France.

A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice
Canada, 2025, 26 min
Advisory: Coarse language; Nudity

Join adventurers Erik and Sarah on yet another outrageous Baffin Vacation as they kiteski

north along the remote coastline of Baffin. Over their 69-day holiday, they ski mountains, climb an epic big wall, and cross a glacier in search of new rivers to whitewater kayak.



Show time: 7:00 PM, doors 6:00 PM
Tickets: $24
Advance tickets: www.eventbrite.com
Event website: www.banffcentre.ca

Earlier Event: October 8
Rickie Lee Jones
Later Event: October 17
Megan Woods - The Truth Tour